Posts by Ian 45
158 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 01:22 GMT
English Taxpayers
English taxpayers giving money to Scotland so they can subsidise jobs at the expense of England. Why dont the English get a vote on an independent Scotland?
Hopefully milestone based payments?
But I doubt it is.....
Break up BT
Split infrastructure from services but they wont because BT has many billions pension deficit which if it goes bust sits with the Government due to the contract when privatised. I love bailing out unionised pensions.
monopoly?
Isnt it time the EU told Micorsoft they have to keep patching as they have a monopoly. Either that or they must give the source code to a third party who can charge for updates. Microsoft cannot be a monopoly and then expect to get away for free.
Free speech?
Insulting certain people is a crime, there is no such thing as free speech in the UK. This merely extends the principle further such that only pre-approved words may be used. Thin end of the wedge.
TV - Iplayer
Use the internet on the TV for Iplayer and Lovefilm but never for the web.
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
Classics
I was only looking for Paperboy and Defender for my phone this week.
Prosecute Google?
How about prosecuting Google for giving links to the torrents?
Will buy it
Currently on the trial version and have to say its so much better than the keyboard my S3 came with. Worth 2 quid!
operating system
You only buy a new operating system when you buy a new PC. Who cares if it has Windows 7 or 8, I will pick the cheapest.
Too late.
Finally got rid of the work BB with a Galaxy S3 and pretty much everyone I know is doing the same.
Cant afford it?
If we cant afford to look after these places maybe we should let them go? The Foreign office likes to pretend it still rules the world but it doesnt.
$1.5bn?
$1.5bn to go an do some experiments on Mars. How about spending that amount on a cure for cancer, who cares if there was life on Mars in the past. Its irrelevant!
Still have to google to find options in Excel
Should have learned from the disaster of office 2007 what pissing around with the UI does.
Break up BT
Should be like the electric, one company manages the network (highly regulated) whilst service companies offer competing offerings for the customer. BT gets away with it as it has a huge pension deficit which would crystalise if this happened which neither the Govt or the unions want (as their defined benefit pension would close). The public are being ripped off to pay for overpaid employees just as in most of the public sector.
Less than 2 years
Employed less than 2 years so no such thing as unfair dismissal. I wonder how much "extra" she put on, most likely a lot.
2bn?
How can it possibly cost 2bn to put a catapult on it? Whats it made of, solid gold? Sounds like someone changed their mind and the only way to get the politicians to fall for it was to make up a massive number. All this so some Scottish union members can keep their jobs.....
Can death get any worse?
Not only died, possibly horribly in a bag. But then his web viewing history is revealed to the world plus a video of him waggling his arse. Ouch.
Mine is on the list
Still using mine, had a couple of other players but they break so i go back to the nano! Hopefully a new battery on the way!!!
Pension deficit
About the value of the pension deficit then.....
Posted in Amazon staff toiled in 100°F+ warehouse
Steel
If I recall correctly, Allentown was famous for steelmaking. So all the workers should be used to the heat?
why?
Why does BT still control the infrastructure? I guess its because their whopping pension deficit is covered by the UK Govt......
April Fool?
They cant even build a simple payment system, the chances that they can identify and match data from the internet to tax records is pretty slim!!!
Posted in Union warns of strike action against HP
simple solution
Provide an option for customers to be able to opt put of having their data seen by anyone outside of the EU. This would shut down outsourcing overnight.
Serial Number
They wouldnt need the serial number as they could work this out once they had monitored a user entering their pin + number as they could check which serial number provided that number at the specific time the user entered it.
Seems like RSA keys are pretty useless against the Chinese....
Free Speech laws
The sooner they pass a free speech law the better. Time for the fascist lefties to be thrown out.
Great
Didnt bother with Iplayer until it came as an option on my PS3 and discovered an amazing piece of technology. Very little buffering and a great picture, I now watch most of the tv via iplayer. As the piece says it would be good if they had it for the ipad.
Rubbish
Every time I got to the airport long term parking it uses this automatic number plate reader and always confuses a 0 for D. In that case the scanner is no more than a few feet away. Quite how a scanner 30 ft up a pole can read it in bad weather is beyond me!
Crime
Funny how Japan has far less crime and Tokyo feels safe no matter what time of day you are there.
You would be surprised at how many in the UK support the death penalty! I still cannot work out how someone who takes another life gets a "life" sentence yet is out after 10 years.......
Posted in Iran unveils 'robot bomber'
V1?
So they have bought the plans for a V1 from the internet and think they are onto a winner! No doubt Israel could shoot it down with their current defence system so the only threat would be if iran filled it with biological/chemical weapons in which case bye bye Iran.
sales
So this effectively says that salary sacrifice is actually a sale of services to employees! How long before they decide giving someone a job is giving them a service and so subject to VAT. Labour wanted to put an extra 1% on employers NI, here seems a great opportunity to add an 20% tax from January.
Cold?
Simple way to reduce energy usage is to keep putting energy prices up. After seeing my gas bill this winter I'm looking to move to a warmer country and thus reduce my energy use......... thieving gits.
Posted in NASA 'nauts wrap ISS pump job
Cooling system?
Cant they use a fan? Seems a bit of a faff to get the air con fixed!
Posted in Craigslist 'killer' kills himself
Thinking
The reality tv show idea got me wondering how low the odds would be before people didnt apply. I bet 100-1 would get loads of applications. Even 50-1 would be full. I reckon around 15-1 would be the lowest...... great idea though!
Posted in Oracle sues Google over Java in Android
Clever
Now you know why most companies wont use open source software in business..... it could suddenly become not quite open source and they get sued for billions.
Oracle is doing Microsoft and the other giants a massive favour with this.
Posted in London tenders for speed cameras
Car Registered?
So many cars in London are not registered to the driver and many dont even have insurance or tax. How about having some police to pull them over and remove their cars as cameras arent going to stop these idiots.
Posted in ASA: You can't say 'f**k'
Swearing
Noticed on last nights QI they bleeped out the word fuck even though it was on after 10pm. They seemed to allow shit though...... The UK is now so PC.
Posted in New 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' demand £50 a day
Unions
Ah yes, the same lot who wrote off the UK economy in the 20th century and now about to try their best to finish the job in the 21st.
If they dont like their salary they can go and get another job. Simples.
Posted in Air steward resigns via emergency chute
Homer Simpson?
I can see Homer Simpson doing this. Genius!
Posted in Perseid meteors - brace for endazzlement
France
Remember seeing this in France about 15 years ago, amazing. Dozens and dozens of shooting stars! Chances of seeing it from the UK....... about as much chance as this being the hottest summer. Pissing it down as we speak...
11 from 30
Any chance that some rounds took out more than one person? Suspect said chap will be hanging from some tree shortly.
Who cares
No money to go to the moon anyway. Nothing there and whilst I realise the human population is spiralling out of control it hasnt quite reached the point of shooting them off to live on the moon.....
Posted in UK.gov finally kills ContactPoint
Now end the secrecy!
The scandal of social workers stealing children on heresay needs to be brought into the light. Hopefully this is the start!
Central Govt
Quite simple, make councils raise all their taxes locally. Then we can vote locally to get rid of the idiots. The country is borrowing 160bn a year and these dicks are buying ipads!
Posted in Pentagon Wikileaks probe reaches MIT
Lamo paid?
So how much was he paid to blow wikileaks? sounds like a set up to me.
Aggressive
To be fair to the police, said copper could have blagged that man was aggressive so he tazered him on purpose and but was big enough to admit to a mistake.
Tazered chap sounds like he is going for the jackpot on the compo though......
Some good, some bad
I like the way the menus are easily found at the top of the page but the rest of it is pants. Seems to scroll on forever, too much content on one page......
Satellites
I was under the impression that the west now have satellites that can track changes in gravity in the sea and thus detect submarines real time?
As for the so called aid we send to India, think of it as export subsidies rather than aid.....
Posted in Wikileaks US Army mole Manning charged
Wikileaks no more
Since they dobbed him in I refuse to look at the site. Cant trust em.
Software
My company has just brought in software that collects together my calls and I have to define which are private and which are business. At the moment I dont have to pay for personal calls but its obvious which way this is going.
As soon as they begin to charge for personal calls they will find it is switched off between 5PM and 9am.
